A guest post from Mac Bogert. One of the classes I survived in graduate school was Classroom Management. The underlying assumption of this course was we can’t let children learn on their own. Yet when I found myself facing a horde of sophomores my first day as an English teacher, as soon as I’d introduced myself I abandoned my lesson plan and asked them to write a short essay from the point of view of their skin. The school was not yet blessed with AC. They took the topic and ran with … [Read more...]